in india all these are made of the. joint people to the villains the greeks we go to the grand imperial truly george was to school until you can a little. civility to go. to some the colonel was that you know as a retreat. takes tools choose debut as default deadline a possible catastrophic economic consequences normally it has continued to pick up on capitol hill preoccupied with party political brinkmanship over extending america's credit limits and when the new york with the latest. poll indicates a pilot error caused last year's presidential plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski and scores of top officials what was so is of the shortfall and still puts part of the blame on russia just my criticism from aviation experts.

hundred fifty thousand antigovernment protesters flood the streets across israel demanding prime minister netanyahu step down with some saying the arab spring has now spread to israel. hello and welcome to the program this is our she's a weekly review and hugo chavez illustrates our main story now the political game of chicken as china has put it it's continuing in washington as the country heads towards a disastrous default for weeks now lawmakers have been struggling to reach a compromise deal to raise the u.s. debt limit and with just hours left till the august second deadline calls intensifying for politicians on capitol hill to cut the partisan bickering and just do their job and marino could not joins us live from new york with the latest hello

them arena so we hear cautious claims that the to arch rivals in washington may be getting closer to reaching a deal so what does this mean and what can we expect next. well what we hear and what we see are two different things in terms of what is happening in washington regarding this debt deal it's been dramatic there's been a lot of political prospering taking place but no deal yet sunday morning we did see u.s. republican leaders take to all the mainstream media saying that a deal is close shortly after we saw u.s. democratic leaders say that there is no final agreement later on about four hours after that there was a vote in the senate where senator harry reid's plan for this to go with actually voted down it only received fifty votes it needed sixty two pounds that was the democratic plan at this point what we know is that the white house is holding closed door meetings with republican congressional leaders but there is

a lot of division that still takes place and the world is watching as the richest country in the world this so-called economic leader is getting to the point of a deadline where if an agreement is not reached there is a chance that the u.s. can default on its loans for the first time ever in history and as experts have said this can per. cent. not the financial crisis in the u.s. one that could spread throughout the world. and what sort of a compromise deal can we expect from the lawmakers and. well what we're being told what is being reported is that the republicans and democrats are trying to agree on a deal that would raise the debt limit in two stages that would get that would get us through the two thousand and twelve elections and that amount would be anywhere between two and three trillion dollars and at the same time they're trying

to come to an agreement that where they would cut the u.s. deficit by three trillion dollars over the next ten years the sticking point here is where to cut the spending the republicans do not want any taxes raised the democrats do not want programs such as social security medicare medicaid to be touched so at this point what both parties are trying to come in agreement come to an agreement on are is where to cut three trillion dollars over the next decade and it's coming down to the wire and it's not looking very good for the u.s. overall right now inside the united states the u.s. as the republicans and democrats divide it but to the rest of the world it looks as though the u.s. cannot lead they can't compromise they can't find solutions and so where is their credibility so merino please tell is the general perception do you was who's to

blame for america possibly facing a default. well at this point i can tell you the overall climate within the us is a climate of frustration americans are losing out while all this grandstanding visit is part of these public partisan politics taking place we see republicans and democrats and the us president barack obama getting in front of television cameras day after day delivering their message it is the americans that are going to take the brunt of this burden and overall it's the u.s. lawmakers it's those that are taking the opportunity to pick or two two months sling to not come to a compromise and as a result of that there's been a bloc cloud of uncertainty uncertainty hanging over the u.s. overall foreign investors are very concerned the u.s. is biggest lender china is very concerned about the fiscal management of the united states and the fact that there can't be a compromise or u.s. business owners are hesitating from hiring new workers because there is

a lack of confidence in the leadership here in the u.s. we should mention that since one thousand nine hundred sixty the u.s. has raised the debt ceiling over seventy times and whether the ceiling is raised or not inevitably i believe that will be the root of the problem is the debt and the growing debt his debt is growing and believe the u.s. leaders are not coming to coming up with solutions on how to produce this test if the u.s. were to default on its loans this would mean a catastrophe for the u.s. economy it would trickle throughout the world and what it would mean in the u.s. is that interest rates would rise people would lose jobs it would be a replay of the two thousand and eight fiscal crisis so at this point to tell you that the consensus is most of most americans is that their elected officials in the u.s. can not lead they can do a better job fighting and arguing then lead it if they come to a compromise that will happen but it will happen at the last minute and some say

that so much damage has already been done to. reputation and the credibility of the u.s. economy all right marina many thanks indeed reporting there live from new york for us. and. the president of a new york based financial advisory service says u.s. lawmakers only have time now for a last minute quick fix deal that's unlikely to be effective in the long run. it's good that it's happening the way it's happening is not very good because i think we were three to six months ago in a position where we probably could have had a more substantial deal to solve the problems. with a country where the politics has put us in a place where we're not going to have great ok type of heart from our eyes even if we get the most aggressive of the types which is somewhat closer to four trillion we're only just be measuring to bring down the debt level of the u.s. to about eighty percent level right now so right now we're just talking about

slowing the rexall ration of the problem which is what it's better than nothing at least if they don't get something it won't get worse and worse but as far as putting us on a good trajectory we need something somewhere closer to the three to four trillion dollar over ten years range to even begin to address. as the u.s. is not the only place struggling to deal with financial crisis massive debts in europe driving more and more countries into trouble with assisting concern over the economic stability of the eurozone and the in part with problems are not. we should sit greece from the euro zone long ago. so the greek drain has started to affect spain as the country prepares for the worst of aids credit rating that's right a guy thing is over they need european team to rescue the stable partner were put on that and. also has admitted that pilot error led to

a polish presidential plane crash in western russia which killed then president lech kaczynski and scores of the country's top officials but the government commission is still a late part of the blame on russian air controllers for the disaster in april last year and. reports now of how a national tragedy has become overtaken by politics. no comment another day another blame game poland's very own probe into last year's presidential plane crash and all but confirmed the findings of russia's investigation that the crew was almost solely responsible for the tragedy. at this point there is an obstacle a tree that the aircraft collides with a fragment of the left wing is detached the aircraft begins there taishan let me emphasize it's not that the tree was too high the aircraft had simply been at a location where it should have been it seems the very things that got in the way of the plane are now getting in the way of warsaw taking full responsibility and trees are not the only thing rooted in poland failing to see eye to eye with moscow

. here's where do post controller two thousand metres away you should have told the committee start descending. command should have been issued exactly at least moments one of the shows that the landing zone controller was performing his duty. and. such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying acceptance of call responsibility would be impossible for the polish society they've been given the truth and the truth is unbearable they can't take it now i don't think that the polish investigators think they can can the blame on anybody else but i do think that they are looking to pin sound of the blame on somebody else aviation experts echoed this opinion calling the swipes against the russian side and substantial some of the claims concerning the airport all controllers they have nothing to do with the crash i've been

a pilot for over thirty years and i know a simple rule if you don't see the runway or it's like the decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve airport the initial russian led investigation was greeted by a novel launch of criticism from some movements in poland they expressed doubts about. the reliability of the report often based on anti russian sentiment and some experts say it is not pure emotion driving this with well thought tactics. but it can skew i think we're now witnessing some political games to shift the blame from the polish scientists and i was an expert in this commission and i was surprised to learn that the crew was chosen immediately before the flight such a poor preparation for such a high profile flight publication of this report had been delayed for several months and was very much anticipated in poland it was meant to put a break through all speculation regarding this millennium plane crash but instead it could once again be used as

a political tool experts say the timing or for publication is not the kinds of ensure this could be exploited also in the political electoral campaign because this should be no longer than two months to be. parliamentary elections this report and all that issue but if your tablet will be use it or even easier is it in the electoral campaign and the twin brother of the late president kaczynski was quick to prove this suggestion with a sharp round about the report. prime minister to say has no courage to take up the responsibility for the plane crash of europe and has shuffled it off under his staff nevertheless he is responsible for all the games he played with the russians he's responsible but the poles are not conducting or even participating in the investigation he's responsible for not defending polish interests imposed on or at the international fora which will get to the bottom of this case as this is what we owe to those who died while the polish society is still deciding whether to admit

that way for the responsibility which comes with a report experts are speculating whether this is a fair and objective investigation or in attempts to police all gray is in the long lost in the blame game let's hear shots to r.t. reporting from warsaw in poland. close look at the timeline of the polish presidential plane crash visit our website. you'll find the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder providing a detailed inside of the tragedy as it unfolded is the place to go. israel has become the latest middle east country to see a nationwide anti-government protest at its peak some one hundred fifty thousand people took to the streets on saturday after more than two weeks of rallies protesters are demanding that prime minister binyamin netanyahu step down unless he

undertakes so we'd be economic reforms oh she's points clear terms it's the biggest demonstration in tel aviv for. easily and in fifty thousand people here with the most popular chant being we demand social justice a whole array of speakers have been taking to the stage and have been calling on unity and message coming across very strongly is one by one people here can bring change a lot of criticism being leveled at israeli prime minister bibi netanyahu in fact if we try his name is mentioned he is why are you here tonight i am here because the such is becoming a possible to live in this country more we work we give our we give in we keep on giving now and there's no end to this is a question as this is only one has to change those because you don't have any other choice which is a people who have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place in their. cars or what is your sign saying. guzzling is on us why do you want him to go home. alone to the fullest and actually stand in strange sions green inspired

protests we saw taking place in arab world oh well i think there's a lot of influence of what happened in the few. now syria lebanon iran and what you see in libya old saw there's a lot of words of both that when people understand i do have the power daddies can take and i wanted and i didn't show they don't need any more good government to tell them what to do they can start telling the government what they want. to do you know they can they can decide to study for themselves he could go back to the same is the spirit of revolution here a number of the israeli populace son singers have also been taking to the stage and one song that was sung you had the chorus and i'm trying to play change this is the new middle east we created a storm dispute shows it's up to us. between forty five and one hundred people have been killed in syria by government forces storming the city of hama according to

local human rights groups president obama has vowed to increase pressure on the regime after this fresh round of violence but the top president of the arab lawyers association says mr promises alone bring positive results. president obama says what he's saying everybody in syria and out of well with immediately respond by one time or. by the rest of the afghanistan situation all of these things are dreams hallow and it doesn't you know have any comfort however i think the west can actually and the world can assist the syrian regime we don't exist policy of quiet contact that's playing to them what are the ways that they can move into this rather than just making statements and changing the rules that the west seem to be content with them in making these crazy statements when you know the regime is less than i thought not. and this is r.t.

later in the program. at the question where it's reza cause of japan sending the country's already high side rates soaring as excited over radiation proves the population falling marchers earthquake and tsunami. the debt crisis raging in europe is claiming more and more economic scalps spain suffering recession and unemployment has now been put on review by the credit rating agency moody's the international monetary fund has warned france that its credit rating could be slashed if it does not impose more spending cuts meanwhile the euro zone's biggest bailout recipient greece has been dealt another blow by one of europe's main creditors germany's finance minister has warns the you won't write a blank check to buy buy the bonds of failing countries in a move also intended to deter other troubled state from believing morally is on the way despite reckless boring economics author patrick young says greece should have

been pushed out of the heroes and. this is typical of contagion we've been talking about it for weeks we have you know when you get some degree of illness and it goes through the body ultimately you have to decide when to get it and the truth is we should have amputated greece from the euro zone long ago there are fundamental problems going all the way through the euro zone and we don't have any leaders who are willing to give us a sustainable solution we've got the situation at the moment where provincial library use in northern germany are being closed because the money isn't there because it's being used to fund people in the mediterranean i think german voters are going to get very angry about that very very soon and i actually think the political will is not there amongst the people to endlessly keep bailing out their solve their neighbors it's going to be a huge problem because ultimately the contagion is going to hit and i really do believe that after last week's events unfortunately we only inched closer to the idea of a troll called your real meltdown. they use and

a strain which has its headquarters belgium is literally at a breaking point it's on the verge of splitting between the flemish speaking north and the french speaking south and has always done el gato reports other e.u. countries all the autumn developments carefully for fear they could be repeated at . divorced before planning their next marriage but not near the southern region of bill just because she's been with will to fix the government record fourteen months free speech in the cells and flemish speaking floors in the north disagree on pretty much everything but the most likely outcome will see the country break into as soon as it splits with florida's is complete the world will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but mainly for. going it alone when your small region is clearly not appealing and worldly say political clout is

important the main appeal is money. as part of france in everything but name that we have the same language we watch french t.v. not belgian but above all i recall is controlled by french firms. polls suggest that hall for sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential front runner marie le pen last week said she would with the southern half of bill jump with france president sarkozy's ruling party and the opposition already in talks to tie the knot so we have contacts with other parties with you n.p. then we have contacted the socialist it has been confirmed to us that in case belgium would split up then what would you welcome in france. the biggest party in the northern half wants the split to expose say bill james already divided people don't know any more about the other half of the country the flemish people don't know who are the popular singers or writers in the french speaking part in vice or

so king albert bill james national day last week was its last here did the crisis threatens not just every pilchard puts european integration itself because we knew or trails the e.u. is scared that the wars of belgium will spark of the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain we're really seeing separatist marches and mixed community towns here turned violent with guns getting called to take just one big class for brussels to become serial that's conflict must killing not suffered in europe since world war two neighbors turned on each other as you can slew of your broke up and the determination of regional identity is not to be underestimated fridge unionists say they have the flag and everything else worked out to become france's twenty eight region all that's left are the details of the

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a balcony before dropping them back to the ground and one was co-driver for it to have injured at least twenty eight as a tour roofs of buildings and uprooted trees brought down power lines and overturned many cars more of these stunning pictures available. for you. and no news from the rest of the world at least eleven people have been killed in a blast at a police headquarters in southern afghanistan the taliban has admitted responsibility for the suicide couple the target in the city of la garde most of the victims were police officers so it's less than a fortnight since nato led forces formally handed over security in the cities who have been troops. under a mound in sicily has erupted again after four episodes of chemical activity this month flames and burning out have been shooting two hundred fifty meters up into the sky and was the strongest of the recent eruptions the latest activity began on

saturday morning and continued into the weekend no casualties or damage have been reported so far. japan is struggling to cope with the psychological consequences of martyrs tsunami and earthquake with an already high suicide rate rising even further it's as the catastrophe big government is concerned the country could be in the grip of a depression epidemic with many were deprived radiation fears after the nuclear disaster which followed thomas reports now from the country. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek shelter anywhere they can some people do. evacuate but the of the problem is they are a minority and they be they have been accused by. their classmates or you know of course by offshore.

causing. found that. the people are not. primarily a move towards itself preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically in general unease and has earned those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor that of course is hard to hear that we are family neighbors we think about our health but in other words we run away we escape because we're scared of radiation but there is no example in the world of something similar and the consequences are still ongoing. well those who have moved to shelters here in tokyo are facing that guilt and the pressure to move back home there are others who have lost everything cannot handle the overwhelming change and they are facing even darker demons japan already has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and following the disaster in march the government has issued

a warning about a possible nationwide epidemic of depression here are some organic farmers coming to suicide because you know people for money. is everything they saw in full after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one night. so. far. i'm very sad to hear the news and many others also very much impressed a recent national survey in japan performed by dr roshini and his team shows that suicide rates in japan have been found increased in the months since the disaster compared to the same timeframe in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect. this is a late increase. no. centers.

but the fear areas because so by those struggling to. they have not had to mix and say this disaster has certainly taken its toll on japan's economy and such constant reminders of an intense topic can harm the collective psyche of the people who live here as well because of the. tsunami disaster last year disaster many people actually lost their jobs or their working congress or house crushed. so. yeah they have a for many good reason through on its side. because in japan it's just told to keep rising even though the initial disaster subsided months before in japan sean thomas for t.v. . sports has it here in just about fifteen minutes and before that i chatted with legendary rock star brian may it was an up interview get to and you're watching i'll see broadcasting live from the center of australia very welcome. to the latest

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